And NOTHING CAN EVER CHANGE. We always do all the things exactly the way we always have done them.

Indeed. As a non-USAian I’m rather indifferent to arguments over the exact intent of the Founding Fathers and the significance of “….endowed by their Creator….” language. The FFs thought about a *lot* of things differently than we do — because most or all eighteenth century people thought differently than we do (even including the ones who seem to think we’re not allowed to think any different than they did). We’ve had *new* ideas and *better* ideas during the past two centuries, and we can do things *better* than they did, and it doesn’t matter how “Biblically-based” the US or Canada or the UK or any other country used to be (if indeed they ever were, outside of the pseudo-history of the Dave Barton crowd), we can change that, and believe it or not the sky won’t fall and the seas won’t rise in wrath to engulf us.

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”

Yeah, that’s a quote from Rick Warren. Just when I thought I had caught him contradicting himself, and refuting his own fallacy, I then read the next sentence, which was, “God’s purpose is not limited by your past.”

So it turns out he was special pleading God out of it, and actually doubling down on the fallacies. So yeah, context does matter. Always read quotes for context.

The first president was a slave owner, so maybe they should all have some slaves.
They should be humane though, and leave it in their will that they should be freed after the presidents or his widow’s death.